Books: Ahlquist, John S. and Margaret Levi. 2013. In the Interest of Others: Leaders, Governance, and Political Activism in Membership Organizations. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Periodicals: Gerring, John. 2005a. "Causation: A Unified Framework for the Social Sciences." Journal of Theoretical Politics 17:2 (April):163-98.
Chapter in Edited Collection: Brady, Henry E. and Cynthia S. Kaplan. 2011. "Conceptualizing and Measuring Ethnic Identity." In Measuring Identity: A Guide for Social Scientists, eds. Rawi Abdelal, Yoshiko M. Herrera, Alastair Iain Johnston, and Rose McDermott. New York: Cambridge University Press, 33-71.
Web Sites: American Political Science Association. 2013. "About the APSA Africa Workshops." Washington, DC: American Political Science Association. Retrieved October 10, 2013 (http://www.apsanet.org/~africaworkshops/content_58417.cfm).
Theory (3–5 pages)
Definition
Dependent variable(s)
Independent variable(s)
Clear relationship
Hypotheses!!
Research Design (5–8 pages)
Plan of collecting data
Validation of the data selection
Plan of using data
Justification of method choice
Feasibility of research design
So far, research proposal
Finishing
Results (4–6 pages)
Empirics
Findings
Conclusion (1–2 pages)
Most important findings
Implications of the findings
How to do academic presentation?
Preparation
Oral
10 slides for 15 mins
Two-page long manuscript
Mental set
Poster
7–8 sections
An elevator speech (3–5 mins)
Slides
5-5-5 Rule (?)
no more than five words per line of text, five lines of text per slide, and five text-heavy slides in a row